We’re a week away from the highly-anticipated release of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. The pivotal West Coast rap group may have formed in the 1980s and released their landmark LP Straight Outta Compton in 1988, but their influence was the most felt in the following decade. It’s almost… Source: Music News

Earlier this month, two teenage girls died at the HARD Summer music festival in Ponoma, California, reportedly from “suspected drug overdoses.” Less than two weeks earlier, an autopsy confirmed suspicions that Nicholas Austin Tom, a 24-year-old Californian who died at the Electric Daisy Carnival in June, died due to MDMA intoxication…. Source: Music News

In exactly one month, Prince will release his new album HitNRun. The rocker announced his surprise LP Friday as part of an exclusive partnership with Jay Z’s Tidal, which will find the high-quality streaming service hosting HitNRun beginning September 7th. The album, co-produced by Art Official Age’s Joshua Welton, will include the previously released… Source: Music News

At only 20 years old, German producer Felix Jaehn has the Number One song in America — but the track, his remix of Omi’s “Cheerleader,” also went Number One in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, South Africa and well near the entire world. Jaehn was already gaining attention in the electronic-music… Source: Music News

When romantic longing is on the line, Carly Rae Jepsen becomes a full-blown action hero. “I’ll hijack you,” she sings on her frenetic new song “Making the Most of the Night.” “Baby, I’m speeding, and red lights I run / What I’ve got, you need it,” she promises over pulsating synths and funky… Source: Music News

As promised, Earl Sweatshirt has unveiled the music video of “Off Top,” a short, tenacious cut off the Odd Future rapper’s I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside. In the animated video, a cartoon Sweatshirt braves aggressive police, rabid dogs and random beatdowns as he journeys through a fever dream Los… Source: Music News

With a new album in the works — and auditions for the 15th (and final) season of American Idol already underway — Keith Urban couldn’t have picked a busier time to hit the road for a handful of summer dates. Even so, the “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” singer found enough time… Source: Music News

For his new live CD/DVD Back to Macon, GA, Gregg Allman returned to the small riverside town where the Allman Brothers Band first got their start, jamming on psychedelics in the local cemetery; the same place where, in 1971, his older brother and legendary guitarist Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident…. Source: Music News